Wine Reviews
| AirRivals on Linux with Wine |
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| Written by Tom Wickline |
| Tuesday, 27 May 2008 03:45 |
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Wine Reviews
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AirRivals is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with the characteristics of both Third-person shooters and flight simulators, developed by MasangSoft and owned by Yedang. In AirRivals, players pilot their own individual starfighters (called "Gears") throughout a number of maps, including terrestrial, lunar, and space maps. It has typical MMORPG elements such as leveling, currency, and a skills system. Ace Online is a largely Player vs. Player (PvP)-oriented game, with character leveling and item acquisition achieved through combat against Non-Player Characters (NPCs) and the completion of missions. As a player gains levels, more and more maps become accessible. Although a high level character will have better character attributes than most other players, no one at any level is invincible against other players in PvP. As in other MMORPGs, players can trade items, customize their gears, form parties ("formations") and guilds ("brigades"), and fight with other players via PvP combat. Almost all of the combat in AirRivals is aerial, from the third-person view. Players have the option to use the in-cockpit, first-person view by pressing on the "Delete" key once. Installation: Download the AirRivals installer from here, just save it to your home directory and start the installer. tom@tom:~$ wine AirRivalsSetup_1.0.0.13.exePlaying the game: Before you start the game, there are two things you will need. First off, you will need to install DirectX 9.0C I have a guide on how this is done here. The second thing you need to do is install the riched 3.0 update, so set richedit20.dll & richedit32.dll as navite (Windows) and then install the riched30 update, make sure you go to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and rename richedit20.dll and richedit32.dll to *.bak or the richedit update wont work.  Performance boosters: If you want to enhance performance, the you can add WINEDEBUG=-all before the executable, ”WINEDEBUG=-all” means that the Wine Debugger will be shut off. Compiz can be quite the performance killer. You might want to replace Compiz by typing ”Metacity –replace” in a terminal before you play. Then simply turn Compiz on again by starting a new terminal and typing ”Compiz”. Support: In the AirRivals forums there is a thread happily named "Drinking WINE" 
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